NEW DELHI, Dec 24: India reported 201 new coronavirus infections, raising the tally to 4.46 crore, while the active cases increased to 3,397, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. The death toll stands at 5,30,691 with one fatality reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am by the ministry stated.
The daily positivity was recorded at 0.15 per cent and the weekly positivity at 0.14 per cent.
A total of 90.97 crore tests for detection of COVID-19 have been conducted so far, with 1,36,315 tests being conducted in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, it said.
An increase of 17 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 case count in a span of 24 hours, the ministry said.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,42,791, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
India has so far recorded at 4.46 crore ( 4,46,76,879) COVID-18 cases.
According to the ministry’s website, 220.04 crore doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 inoculation drive.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19, 2020. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore cases on May 4, 2021, three crore on June 23 and four crore cases on January 25 this year. (Agencies)
India records 201 new COVID-19 infections; active cases rise to 3,397
NIA Raids Multiple Locations In Chandigarh, J&K In Separate Cases
New Delhi, Dec 24: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday morning conducted raids at multiple locations in Chandigarh, and Jammu and Kashmir in two separate cases having links to terror activities.
The raids are still on at the premises and hideouts of some suspects in these cases, sources said.
The moves come a day after the central counter-terror agency carried out searches at 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir against people involved in the spreading of terrorist activities by the various proscribed terrorist outfits in the Union Territory (UT) by targeting minorities, security personnel.
The search operation conducted on Friday covered places in Kulgam, Pulwama, Anantnag, Sopore and Jammu districts.
The agency had seized various incriminating materials such as digital devices, SIM cards and digital storage devices from the searched premises.
The agency said that the case pertains to the criminal conspiracy for carrying out terrorist and subversive activities hatched by the cadres and Over Ground Workers (OWGs) of various proscribed organizations and their affiliates and off-shoots, operating under various pseudo names, at the behest of their Pakistani commanders and handlers.
“They are involved in carrying out terrorist attacks by using cyber-space in Jammu and Kashmir, targeting of minorities, security personnel and spreading communal disharmony,” NIA had said.
The case had been suo-moto registered on June 21 this year by the NIA’s Jammu branch. (Agencies)
2 killed in assault by mentally unsound man in J&K’s Anantnag: Police
SRINAGAR, Dec 23: Two people were killed and six injured in an assault by a mentally unstable man in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday, officials said.
Javaid Ahmad allegedly picked up a stick and started hitting unsuspecting people who were out for early morning chores in the Ashmuqam area of the district, the officials added.
Two people succumbed to the injuries sustained in the assault while at least six more are undergoing treatment, they said.
One of the injured persons told police that several people tried to overpower the assailant but failed.
Further details of the incident are awaited.
Covid Cases: India logs 163 new infections, active cases dip to 3,380
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: India logged 163 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases declined to 3,380, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.
The Covid case tally was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,76,678).
The death toll stands at 5,30,690 with nine fatalities. While six deaths were reconciled by Kerala, two deaths were reported from Maharashtra and one from Delhi in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, the ministry said. A decrease of 22 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,42,608, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry’s website, 220.03 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. It had crossed the four-crore mark on January 25 this year. (Agencies)
ICICI Foundation successfully completes Rain Water Harvesting Project in Govt Schools
JAMMU, Dec 22: ICICI Foundation, the CSR arm of the ICICI group set up in 2008 to enable inclusive growth, successfully completed the Rain Water Harvesting Project in many Government Schools.
The Rain Water Harvesting Project was completed under the supervision of ICICI Foundation Project Manager, Binni Thakur, Development Officer, Parvinder Singh and Community Facilitator, Balwan Singh.
The project was completed in Government Girls Middle School Langotian, Government High School Rarian, Government Middle School Rara, Government High School Mahal Shahan, Government High School Keso Manhsan, Government Girls Middle School Abtal, Government Boys Middle School Abtal, Government High School Abtal Chowni, Government Middle School Bassi Khurd and Government High School Palli.
Under the Rain Water Harvesting Project, ICICI Foundation for increasing water level and storing rain water provided 1000 litres PVC Tanki and complete 50 feet deep Bhor-Filter free of cost in aforementioned government schools.
Project Manager, Binni Thakur said, “Working on the strategic pillar of ‘Shortage’ and ‘Environment’, the Foundation has implemented various interventions towards conservation and management of water.”
“ICICI Foundation has implemented the Rainwater Harvesting Project in many government schools across the J&K advancing on the traditional and cost-effective method of conserving water,” he added.
Principal Government Girls Middle School Langotian Jashpal, Government High School Rarian, Ajit, Government High School Keso Manhsan, Urmila Jamwal and Government Girls Middle School Abtal Anita Choudhary, appreciated the initiative of ICICI Foundation under Rain Water Harvesting Project.
They said that the ICICI Foundation has been contributing to J&K’s economic growth and development.
While promoting inclusive growth, the Foundation has made differences to its customers through its products and services, as well as supporting development initiatives and community outreach, they said.
DSS celebrates Dogri Manyaa Diwas
Youth Wing of Dogra Sadar Sabha, Jammu and Kashmir held a meeting of its members and prominent
citizens of Jammu under the chairmanship of Shri Prem Sagar Gupta, Gen Secretary DSS, to celebrate
20 th Dogri Manyata Diwas here today at the Sabha Bhawan on 22 nd of December, 2022.
In his inaugural remarks, Shri Gambhir Dev I/C Youth wing DSS, congratulated the people of Jammu,
Dogras and lovers of Dogri language on this historic occasion and appealed to them to use the mother
tongue to the maximum possible extent in their homes and amongst each other to preserve, promote,
enrich and pass on this sweet and complete communicative language to the coming generations. He said
that the government had done much of its job by incorporating Dogri language in the 8 th schedule of
Indian constitution through the Ninety-Second Amendment Act, 2003 and The Jammu and Kashmir
Official Languages Bill, 2020, but it is more for the Dogri Speaking people to nourish and promote the
same, particularly at a time when there is a free play of people of different ethnicities due to openness in
the society and increased social interaction. He recalled the outstanding role played by the Dogra Sadar
Sabha in getting the language recognized as an official language at the National level and UT level, but
insisted that the government of India and the UT Government in J&K had a greater role to play in
promotion of the language. He appealed to the Government that the Dogri Website which is lying
dormant for quite some time must be activated and an exclusive Dogri Doordarshan Channel and Dogri
Radio Station must be established to take the voice of Dogras to far off areas of the UT and across the
borders and LoC with Pakistan and PoJK to counter the propaganda of the envious country. Dogri
language must be given due and honourable place in school and college text books and research work, he
said. All this was of great public importance and concerns preservation and promotion of rich Dogra
culture, heritage and chivalrous history of this region, he said. It is also essential keep the torch of
patriotism, humanity and civic sense glowing in the hearts and minds of masses, particularly amongst the
youth, children and coming generations.
Prominent among those who express their views on the occasion were Janak Khajuria, Ravi Singh
Slathia, Dr. V S Sharma, Pawan Sharma,Ravinder Singh, Munish Pathania, Jitender Kumar , Rajinder
Gupta, Ishan Gupta,S. Paul Singh and others.
Random RT-PCR sampling of passengers started at International airports: Mansukh Mandaviya on Covid situation
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday said that the government has started random RT-PCR sampling among the passengers arriving at International airports in the country amid the recent surge of Coronavirus infection in various countries including China, Japan, South Korea, France, and the United States.
“We have also started the random RT-PCR sampling among passengers arriving at International airports in the country. We are committed to tackling the pandemic and are taking appropriate steps,” Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in his statement in the Lok Sabha while advising the States to make sure that people wear masks, use sanitizers and maintain social distancing even during the festive and the New Year season. He also encouraged the states to increase awareness towards precautionary doses against Coronavirus.
“We are keeping an eye on the global Covid situation and are taking steps accordingly. The States are advised to increase genome-sequencing to timely identify the new variant of Covid-19,” Mandaviya added.
He further said that the health department has been proactive in managing the Covid pandemic. The Centre has also provided financial assistance to States in the fight against the pandemic, he added.
“So far, 220 crore covid vaccine shots have been given,” the Health Minister mentioned.
Mandaviya then claimed that the number of Covid cases is depleting in India despite its surge across the world.
“From the last few days, Covid cases have been rising in the world but in India, the cases are depleting. We are seeing rising Covid cases and deaths due to it in China,” he said.
Notably, Mandaviya chaired a high-level meeting on Wednesday to review the COVID-19 situation in India and the preparedness of the public health system for surveillance, containment, and management of COVID-19. He urged people to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour and get vaccinated against the virus.
Emphasizing that COVID-19 is not over yet, he asked the officials to be fully geared up and strengthen surveillance.
Mandaviya has already directed the officials to be fully geared up and strengthen the surveillance system for whole genome sequencing of positive case samples to track the variants through the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) network to ensure the timely detection of newer variants, if any, circulating in the country.
BJP govt grappling with the mess of its own creation: Harsh Dev
Udhampur, 22-12-2022: Former Minister and senior AAP leader, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh said that having enticed the gullible masses with its seductive slogans, the BJP govt had literally and figuratively failed to fulfil its commitments made by it during Assembly and Parliamentary elections resulting in massive public outrage. “While the unemployed were assured of Job bonanzas with gainful employment for all educated youth, the general masses were lured by the most glamorous slogans of ‘Achhe Din’, ‘Sabka saath-Sabka Vikas’ etc. And above all, the BJP leadership had promised to curb inflation and to improve and ameliorate the lot of common man by framing people friendly policies. Unfortunately 8 years down the line what we find is all-round dis-enchantment with a hapless BJP govt grappling with the mess of its own creation”, said Mr. Harsh Dev while interacting with several people during his tour of village Kashirah of Udhampur East constituency where he had been invited by the locals of the area to highlight the burning issues of the public.
Ridiculing the loud proclamations made by the BJP leadership of creating two crore jobs per year for unemployed educated youth, Mr. Singh said that the govt’s post election conduct had only amounted to rubbing salt on wounds of such youth. The ‘Agniveer’ scheme announced by the govt had not only antagonized the young aspirants all over the country, but had unravelled the insensitivity of a highly apathetic govt in its true colours. Recruiting youth for four years and them retiring them at young age of 22 or 23 years was a typical example of “use and throw” policy against the youth besides constituting a human right violation of a grave order. BSF and CISF aspirants had been treated most shabbily by the govt resulting in massive resentment against the present regime. Plight of NYCs, REKs, REJs, REZs, DRWs, Contractuals etc was equally pathetic with damocles’ sword of dis-engagement hanging over their heads. And despite repeated promises of regularization made with them, they were being treated as disposables facing constant threat of termination. The result therefore was obvious with massive outrage amongst such youth having led to governance fiasco besides law and order problems of serious nature. Likewise the promises made by the BJP leadership with various other aspirational groups had proved mere hyperboles creating huge unrest amongst the public at large, rued Mr. Singh. He assured the people that their problems pertaining to power and water crisis would be projected before the appropriate authorities for immediate redressal.All Frontline AAP leaders in J&K are highly corrupt, says Rajesh Gupta
National Democratic Party Indian (NDPI) claimed that AAP would be rejected by the people of J&K where Assembly polls are
scheduled for 2023. All Frontline AAP leaders in J&K are highly corrupt.
With Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launching a pitch to “Make India Number 1” ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the
National Democratic Party Indian (NDPI) president Rajesh Gupta on Thursday in an interview said the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) Convener was gearing up to cheat and betray the entire country by making grandiose appeals to people as well as
political parties to join his self styled national mission to make India the number one country in the world.
NDPI Chief said people will never trust the Delhi CM. “Kejriwal’s chameleon character and history of lies and deceit is known
to everyone. He first deceived his political guru Anna Hazare by going against him. He vowed that the India Against
Corruption (IAC) movement would remain a social movement only and that he would never make a political party but went
back on his words.
“Kejriwal is also known for vowing on the heads of his children that he would never take the support of the Congress party
to form a government in Delhi but did just that in his lust for power,” the NDPI leader said.
Gupta said Kejriwal has betrayed Punjabis who trusted his words that all women would be given Rs 1,000 per month and
that there would be jobs for youth while voting his party to power with an overwhelming majority.
The NDPI leader said far from doing anything for Punjab, Kejriwal had made the state a subsidiary of Delhi and usurped all
powers of governance for himself and his lackeys like Raghav Chadha. “He (Kejriwal) stands thoroughly exposed. No one will
believe him now. He should stop day dreaming of becoming Prime Minister by resorting to such Missions,” he added.
Rajesh Gupta further said Delhi residents were “feeling suffocated” by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), equating it to Delhi’s
noxious winter air pollution levels.“ Arvind Kejriwal has given Delhi a highly corrupt model of governance. He has made false
claims that can never be achieved… It is the first time we have seen a government work in such a shameless manner,” said
Gupta. ,“The people of Delhi want freedom from the pollution, and in the same way, also want to get rid of Kejriwal’s
government.” he said. “Kejriwal first appeared as someone who wanted to be a social activist, but right now, he is the most
corrupt chief minister in the country,” Gupta maintained.
SMVDU Researcher Bags Best Paper Award at ICOFT MADE 2022 Conference, NIT
Pondicherry
Mr Ravi Kumar Goyal, PhD Scholar, School of Mechanical Engineering, SMVDU, has
presented a paper at 3rd International Conference on Furustic Technologies on
Manufacturing , Design, Automation and Energy (ICOFT MADE 2022) at National Institute of
Technology Puducherry Karaikal from 14-16 December 2022.Ravi Kumar Goyal received the
best paper award in the stream “Automation and Energy”. The research candidate and
Eswaramoorthy Muthusamy authored a technical paper entitled “Social Environmental and
Economic Assessment of Box Type Solar Cookers for Domestic Acceptance in India”, and in
a paper presented by Ravi Kumar Goyal, he emphasized the social, environmental and
economic assesment of box type solar cooker for domestic acceptance in India.Researchers
from India, China, Thailand , South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, USA, presented their
research work through online and offline mode.